Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 185 325 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.30% 9.71% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.68% 30.35% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 102 167 285
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £47,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +19.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,625 £83,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £109,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 603 1,071 1,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.03% 32.01% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 451 625 1,447
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -29 72 £45,000 -35.71% 58
Oxfordshire -4 60 £67,500 -3.57% 57
Buckinghamshire -8 53 £60,000 +1.69% 25
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.54%) Camunda
3 1 (0.54%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (22.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.62%) Azure
2 71 (38.38%) Power Platform
3 45 (24.32%) AWS
4 24 (12.97%) Azure AI
5 22 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.11%) GCP
7 13 (7.03%) Serverless
8 12 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.41%) SaaS
11 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (3.78%) GitHub
13 7 (3.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 5 (2.70%) dbt
15 4 (2.16%) Amazon S3
15 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) DNS
1 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (1.62%) Internet
3 3 (1.62%) MQTT
4 2 (1.08%) 5G
4 2 (1.08%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.08%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.54%) 4G
5 1 (0.54%) Intranet
5 1 (0.54%) MIMO
5 1 (0.54%) Modbus
5 1 (0.54%) NGN
5 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.27%) Power BI
2 34 (18.38%) Tableau
3 17 (9.19%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.86%) Metadata
6 9 (4.86%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.62%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.62%) MySQL
9 3 (1.62%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.08%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.54%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Git
2 15 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.86%) JMeter
3 9 (4.86%) JUnit
3 9 (4.86%) Mockito
4 7 (3.78%) GitLab
4 7 (3.78%) MLflow
5 4 (2.16%) Selenium
6 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.62%) Postman
6 3 (1.62%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.54%) Appium
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.54%) LabVIEW
General
1 78 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (20.54%) Finance
4 16 (8.65%) Manufacturing
4 16 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.95%) Law
6 10 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.08%) Automotive
10 2 (1.08%) Aviation
10 2 (1.08%) Banking
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.54%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (26.49%) Analyst
2 41 (22.16%) Developer
3 38 (20.54%) Data Analyst
4 25 (13.51%) Junior
5 24 (12.97%) Junior Analyst
5 24 (12.97%) Junior Data Analyst
5 24 (12.97%) Senior
6 22 (11.89%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.49%) Power Platform Developer
8 11 (5.95%) Lead
9 10 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (4.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Associate Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Customer Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.97%) REST
2 15 (8.11%) SOAP
3 14 (7.57%) .NET
4 12 (6.49%) Middleware
5 11 (5.95%) HTML
5 11 (5.95%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.41%) JSON
6 10 (5.41%) Spring
6 10 (5.41%) Web Services
6 10 (5.41%) XML
7 9 (4.86%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (4.86%) Apache Camel
7 9 (4.86%) Hibernate
7 9 (4.86%) jQuery
7 9 (4.86%) WireMock
8 8 (4.32%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (4.32%) Visualforce
9 5 (2.70%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.16%) React
10 4 (2.16%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.27%) Low-Code
2 16 (8.65%) Life Science
3 14 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.70%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.16%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.16%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.62%) Animation
7 3 (1.62%) LIMS
8 2 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Arduino
9 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.54%) IoT
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.97%) Linux
2 9 (4.86%) Unix
3 4 (2.16%) Windows
4 2 (1.08%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.54%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 57 (30.81%) Agile
3 56 (30.27%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (29.73%) AI
5 53 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.54%) DevOps
7 36 (19.46%) Computer Science
7 36 (19.46%) Software Engineering
8 31 (16.76%) Decision-Making
8 31 (16.76%) ETL
9 28 (15.14%) Machine Learning
10 27 (14.59%) Analytics
10 27 (14.59%) Data Modelling
11 26 (14.05%) Data Governance
12 21 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (10.27%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (9.73%) SDLC
15 17 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.70%) SQL
2 38 (20.54%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.22%) Java
4 26 (14.05%) C++
5 24 (12.97%) C#
6 12 (6.49%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.95%) C
8 10 (5.41%) Bash
8 10 (5.41%) VBA
9 8 (4.32%) Apex Code
10 7 (3.78%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (2.70%) Go
12 5 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.16%) Fortran
13 4 (2.16%) R
13 4 (2.16%) Rust
14 3 (1.62%) PHP
15 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (28.11%) Degree
2 28 (15.14%) Azure Certification
3 24 (12.97%) Security Cleared
4 23 (12.43%) Master's Degree
5 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.41%) ACCA
6 10 (5.41%) CIMA
6 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.32%) PhD
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.65%) QA
2 15 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) ECSS
4 3 (1.62%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.62%) GxP
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 22 (11.89%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.16%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.16%) KVM
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (12.97%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.03%) Terraform
3 10 (5.41%) Kibana
4 6 (3.24%) Ansible
5 4 (2.16%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.62%) Argo
7 1 (0.54%) Control-M
7 1 (0.54%) Grafana
7 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.49%) SAP
3 11 (5.95%) Databricks
4 10 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.86%) Splunk
6 8 (4.32%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.32%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.70%) VMware
8 4 (2.16%) Google
9 3 (1.62%) Agilent
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Informatica
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.54%) ANSYS
11 1 (0.54%) Cognos
11 1 (0.54%) Dell
11 1 (0.54%) Epicor
11 1 (0.54%) Software AG
11 1 (0.54%) TIBCO